I'm hoping my wife has picked up on the hints I've been dropping for Far Cry 3 looking fantastic under the tree (I'll have to get the ps3 version). Unfortunately, I recently implemented a 'no buying anything for yourself' decree for December to help me with her Christmas presents...it appears that I may not have thought this through enough.

Well I had store credit that I forgot about until today and that cut down on my price significantly. So take my $25 with a large grain of salt.

But this game is a beautiful combination of what was fun about Far Cry 2 with a lot of influence from Red Dead Redemption. I can't give this game enough praise (so far it hasn't annoyed me) just a blast and a half. I have done a lot of exploring and almost got mauled by a tiger!

I'm playing against a guy now in NHL 13 and all he's doing is throwing the puck to the net. From every angle possible. And getting cheap rebound goals. I mean, it's working for him. So I can't really say much.

nocera wrote:I'm playing against a guy now in NHL 13 and all he's doing is throwing the puck to the net. From every angle possible. And getting cheap rebound goals. I mean, it's working for him. So I can't really say much.

nocera wrote:I'm playing against a guy now in NHL 13 and all he's doing is throwing the puck to the net. From every angle possible. And getting cheap rebound goals. I mean, it's working for him. So I can't really say much.

That never works for me.

He's not taking actual shots. He's taking weak backhands from the blue line and the goalie can't handle the rebound. It's bs.

MRandall25 wrote:Plus, if you get within a foot of a CPU player, you pretty much automatically lose the puck to them, but you can hit a guy 5 times and he'll keep on skating...

I understand trying to make the game more "realistic", but there's a limit and a point where it becomes overdoing it.

I haven't played it for awhile now, but this really annoyed me. There were certain players like Pronger who if you went anywhere near them, they automatically stole the puck.

It's not just Pronger. You know how I mentioned I've been really only playing the Rookie CPU tourney on HUT? Yeah, CHL guys whose overall can't be higher than like 60 are stealing the puck off me like they're Pavel Datsyuk.

MRandall25 wrote:Plus, if you get within a foot of a CPU player, you pretty much automatically lose the puck to them, but you can hit a guy 5 times and he'll keep on skating...

I understand trying to make the game more "realistic", but there's a limit and a point where it becomes overdoing it.

I haven't played it for awhile now, but this really annoyed me. There were certain players like Pronger who if you went anywhere near them, they automatically stole the puck.

It's not just Pronger. You know how I mentioned I've been really only playing the Rookie CPU tourney on HUT? Yeah, CHL guys whose overall can't be higher than like 60 are stealing the puck off me like they're Pavel Datsyuk.